Studying this means:
- reading novels;
- reading short stories;
- reading long poems;
- reading short poems;
- reading aphorisms;
- reading dramas;
- watching authors at work.
Novels
- Apuleius, Metamorphoses [The Golden Ass], Late 2nd century, Latin.
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719, English.
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814, English.
- Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1819, English.
- Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi [The Betrothed], 1840–1842, Italian.
- Jules Verne, Cinq semaines en ballon [Five Weeks in a Balloon], 1863, French.
- Jules Verne, Voyage au centre de la Terre [Journey to the Center of the Earth], 1864, French.
- Jules Verne, De la Terre à la Lune [From the Earth to the Moon], 1865, French.
- Jules Verne, Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras [The Adventures of Captain Hatteras], 1866, French.
- Jules Verne, Les Enfants du capitaine Grant [In Search of the Castaways], 1867–1868, French.
- Jules Verne, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers [Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas], 1869–1870, French.
- Jules Verne, Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours [Around the World in Eighty Days], 1872, French.
- Jules Verne, L’Île mystérieuse [The Mysterious Island], 1875, French.
- Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир [War and Peace], 1865–1867, Russian.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Преступление и наказание [Crime and Punishment], 1866, Russian.
- Giovanni Verga, I Malavoglia, 1881, Italian.
- H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1897, English.
- Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the “Narcissus”, 1897, English.
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899, English.
- Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1900, English.
- Emilio Salgari, Le tigri di Mompracem [The Tigers of Mompracem], 1900, Italian.
- Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks. Verfall einer Familie [Buddenbrooks], 1901, German.
- Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], 1924, German.
- Thomas Mann, Joseph und seine Brüder [Joseph and his brothers], 1933–1943, German.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess, 1905, English.
- Jack London, White Fang, 1906, English.
- Italo Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno [Zeno’s Conscience], 1923, Italian.
- Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931, English.
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932, English.
- Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato [The Cloven Viscount], 1952, Italian.
- Italo Calvino, Il cavaliere inesistente [The nonexistent Knight], 1959, Italian.
- Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King, 1959, English.
- Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, 1969, English.
- Primo Levi, La chiave a stella [The Wrench], 1978, English.
- Sasha Sokolov, Школа для дураков [A School for Fools], 1973, Russian.
- Don DeLillo, Players, 1977, English.
- Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose], 1980, Italian.
- Natalia Ginzburg, La città e la casa [The City and the House], 1984, Italian.
- Philip Roth, American Pastoral, 1997, English.
- Xuezhiyu shizhifeng, 地狱app, 2018, Chinese.
- Roberto Mercadini, Storia perfetta dell’errore, 2018, Italian.
- Roberto Mercadini, Bomba atomica, 2020, Italian.
- Roberto Mercadini, L’ingegno e le tenebre, 2022, Italian.
Short story collections
- Primo Levi, Il sistema periodico [The Periodic Table], 1975, Italian. Ȝᘔ: autobiography, chemistry; Piedmont.
- Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, 1894, English.
Long Poems
- Lucretius, De rerum natura [On the Nature of Things], 1st century BC, Latin.
- Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia [Divine Comedy], 1308–1321, Italian.
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